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The article focuses on the analysis of autobiographical intentions in Dominik Tatarka’s work Navrávačky. The author’s autobiographical approach is decrypted in the Nietzschean context as the subject’s self-realization strategy based on the principle of fixation and elaboration. The Carpathian shepherd concept, which is a result of the interference between fixation and elaboration principle, is based on the autobiographical semantic concentration and re-direction of the experienced events. However, by activating mythological schemes, it creates an opportunity to transform the author’s pragmatic image into an icon.